FreeBSD NIS Server/Slave && DES

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:41:02AM -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> 
> The FreeBSD Handbook section 19.8.11 appears to be out of date.  The
> output of the method shown to see if the FreeBSD box is using DES or MD5
> has no resemblance to what I see on my box.

Aargh.  That is out of date.

> How do I configure FreeBSD to use DES?  Specifically if I run a FreeBSD
> NIS master how do I get rpc.yppasswdd and yppasswd to play nice?

Look in /etc/login.conf:

	default:\
		:passwd_format=des:\

Look in /etc/auth.conf:

	crypt_default	=	des

Ceri
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